ashwinaj

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by ashwinaj 1y ago
> maybe nobody cares about watching Netflix if we can now have holodecks that become fully immersible experiences that allow for educational training and, to your chagrin, entertainment as well I don't see why billions of dollars sh
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by ashwinaj 1y ago
1. Chattanooga, TN isn't exactly "rural" 2. How large is each "diagnostic medical image"? I can't imagine this being in the order of TB a. An existing 5G/LTE or satellite internet is perfectly servic
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by ashwinaj 1y ago
Contrarian opinion: What exactly is the point of "fast" internet? Most people use the internet for entertainment, people can survive watching Netflix at 1080p/720p, it isn't debilitating. If I'm wrong in my asses
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by ashwinaj 1y ago
There are tons of Youtube channels and Reddit threads dedicated to clones. My protocol is, if the originals sell at outrageous prices, I go for clones. They are good enough for me.
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by ashwinaj 7y ago
Lol, same here
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by ashwinaj 7y ago
> Online is how you reach the largest audience So? Is this going to cause any change in the government's behavior: No. This is the literal definition of a paper tiger.
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by ashwinaj 7y ago
> In my WeChat feed, I've seen a lot of panic This is the problem, everything is hush hush or online. No one has the _____ to stand up and say this is not right. I'm only contrasting this with democratic govts. (However flawed
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by ashwinaj 7y ago
I am talking about Chinese citizens criticizing the Chinese govt. __in China__ the same way as American citizens can criticize the American govt. in America, if it wasn't obvious. And by criticizing I mean openly criticizing in public,
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by ashwinaj 7y ago
Sure, but people can openly criticize the US govt and it's policies. Can they do this in China? A sense of national pride should not trump objectivity.
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by ashwinaj 7y ago
> Chinese social media has been awash with anger over the death of the whistle-blower How about going out to protest? Oh wait, you can't...bravo for your virtue signalling.
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by ashwinaj 7y ago
Doesn't matter what his ethnicity is, if he doesn't produce (whatever that definition is: stock price, technology output, new market etc.) he'll be kicked out. At the CEO level, nepotism does not work (unless he has a golden
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by ashwinaj 7y ago
Yeah right. I was in Beijing last week, how in the world is China ranked alongside India in terms of English proficiency? I could hardly find anyone even at the Beijing Capital airport to speak a coherent English sentence, let alone grammat
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by ashwinaj 7y ago
> You’re not unmotivated. You’re not lazy. You’re not bored. You are afraid. Well put. Being afraid of failure is the root cause.
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by ashwinaj 7y ago
You can nitpick. But I'm pretty certain most, if not all, African Americans who worked for racists were fired if they found out that they were part of the civil rights movement. As Jordan Peterson says, clean up your room before you go
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by ashwinaj 7y ago
Finally common sense prevails! Get to work on time, eat your free lunch, work, go home. To those of you who disagree; if you want to "make a difference" take a cue from Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther king Jr. etc. Mahama Gandhi di
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by ashwinaj 7y ago
Throwaway account, cool. You're talking as if most, if not all, companies are engaging in R&D at the level of the Apollo 11 space mission. You don't need brilliant people in most cases, merely having honest, diligent, persiste
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by ashwinaj 7y ago
I'm not sure where you are located but come to the SF Bay area. You'll find tons of them in every company.
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by ashwinaj 8y ago
Yes and no. There is a stark difference between Texas and California (I've lived in both states). Here's a recent story shared by a friend who moved from CA to TX: He took his son (who are Indians) and another bunch of kids, two w
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by ashwinaj 8y ago
Please travel around the world (alone or with family/friends); unfortunately we live in this bubble of tech, politics, 24/7 news cycle that it makes us irritable/depressed. I wouldn't say I'm depressed, I work at a
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by ashwinaj 8y ago
Well put. I grew up in the UAE where xenophobia/racism is rampant. If you really want to see white privilege in action and more shockingly, out in the open, move to any Arab country.
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by ashwinaj 8y ago
> And nobody internally enjoys doing a lot of coding interviews That's true, I recently had an interview and the interviewer was on the phone all the time totally uninterested, barring the first 5 minutes. How do you account for tha
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by ashwinaj 8y ago
Funny coincidence, there was a new grad hire event yesterday at "The Patio" in Palo Alto. FB don't seem to be having a problem hiring new grads despite what this article says.
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by ashwinaj 8y ago
Thanks for the information!
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by ashwinaj 8y ago
Awesome plugin Jacob. I have a question about the full version, is it per editor? Eg., I use Sublime Text most of the time, but occassionally vim, do I need to buy 2 licenses? Also are these licenses transferrable between machines (work vs
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by ashwinaj 8y ago
Can't agree with you more! Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Interviews are subjective, and what I've seen recently is the expectation is that you solve Leetcode questions within 10-15 mins with the optimum solution (yes
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by ashwinaj 8y ago
Interesting analysis, for me the takeaway was that he is 24. Going anecdotally, most people who are 24 think money can buy happiness; and it makes sense since most of them have: 1. Some form of debt 2. Lived off their parents or lower wage
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by ashwinaj 8y ago
Thanks for posting this. It seems to me that everyone is looking for a way out of a difficult circumstance and see Canada as some sort of a paradise. I grew up in the Middle East, the labor laws there are much worse than the US; so I'm
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by ashwinaj 8y ago
Here's a simple hypothetical question: If you or I were to steal a pack of gum from a store and were caught we would have been charged with a misdemeanor. And it would remain in our background record for 10 years. What does a banker ha
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by ashwinaj 8y ago
> Exhibit A of our system's self-destructiveness are international students at American universities being refused residency on graduation. You cannot categorically say that all international students are "highly skilled"
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by ashwinaj 8y ago
> There's plenty of metropolitan cities where no one has to drive What percentage of the land mass of the US does that constitute? I bet less than 10% and that's being really generous.

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